Pent-up energy and passion to improve schools will take a back seat to melodramas over Common Core implementation and the state budget.
What GOP should do about Obama’s administrative amnesty
Republicans don’t have the political tools or leverage to stop or reverse it. So, they should start passing GOP immigration measures, beginning with mandatory use of electronic verification of work eligibility for all employers.
Douglas deserves some space
Critics should keep their powder dry until the new school superintendent has actually done something.
GOP Congress: Avoid the Big No-No
What the Republicans should, and more importantly shouldn’t, do with their new congressional majority.
The ACC’s busybody energy efficiency rules
Far from an immaculate conception, the commission’s energy efficiency program is silly.
Even Horne deserves better
Horne didn’t get an independent and binding review of the accusation he illegally coordinated with an independent campaign. And that spotlights an injustice in Arizona’s system of administrative law the Legislature should remedy.
Does Ducey have a mandate?
He won impressively big. But he ran on background, experience and general conservative philosophy, not a specific agenda.
Ducey’s first job: Settle education funding lawsuit
Putting the state budget on a sustainable footing is impossible until the uncertainty over education funding is resolved.
How could Suns “run” into a wall against Grizzlies?
Bad headline: “Suns run into wall against Grizzlies”. Suns did no running at all against the Grizzlies.
Shell-shocked state Dems cast blame, make excuses
But if Republicans are 40 percent of the turnout, they don’t have to do much else right to win.